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Jex targets rail market
Exhibiting for the first time at Infrarail was Jex Plant UK Ltd, introducing a new vacuum pump that it says will offer benefits for the rail industry.
Running on 100% air, the unit can move up to 30m³
of material per hour – including stone, powder, slurry and solids in water of up to 70%. It can operate up to 50 metres from the work area and deposit material up to 1,000 metres away. For railway applications, Jex says this offers a solution
to the problem of getting trackbed materials from the roadside to the work site, especially in remote areas, where their use can avoid heavy plant having to travel across farmland or environmentally sensitive areas.
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ACT Informatics makes an Impact
The Infrarail Awards judges selected ACT Informatics’ Impact suite of applications as winner in the Best Service Innovation category at the show.
Impact is an integrated suite of applications that cover the full rail business delivery life-cycle, from simulation and assessment of timetables, through real-time monitoring, management and prediction of on-the- day services to analysis of historic performance. Applications will be provided as a hosted web service, enabling users to contribute to and access real-time performance information while on the move through laptops, tablet PCs and
mobile devices. Key applications include: train and
crew monitoring, covering train, crew, signalling, infrastructure, schedule and performance information; predictive tools, providing forecasts of performance for trains currently running, together with predicted train path conflicts and long range alerts of potential train running issues; performance analysis, allowing analysis of past performance by service, location and performance cause; and modelling and simulation, which exploits existing sources of information to significantly reduce the time, effort and cost required to simulate changes to timetables or alterations to network layouts.
Top biker greets Adaptaflex visitors
A personal appearance by British Superbike Championship rider Tommy Hill drew visitors to the stand of cable conduit systems specialists Adaptaflex on the middle day of Infrarail. The company is providing personal sponsorship for Tommy during the 2010 season and his Worx Crescent Suzuki racing motorcycle was displayed on the stand throughout the show.
New products for the company’s Adaptalok ATS non-metallic flexible conduit system were on display, adding to a range that is finding international rail clients for both infrastructure and rolling stock applications. Also promoted by the company was
its publication ‘A Guide to Specifying Flexible Conduit Systems for the Rail Industry’, providing essential data on the protection of critical power and data
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cabling for rail vehicles ranging from high-speed trains to light rail vehicles, as well as outlining requirements for infrastructure installation. The document can be downloaded from the Adaptaflex website:
www.adaptaflex.com/railguide/
MGB
recognised
Scooping the Infrarail Special Award for its contribution to the industry was MGB Signalling, recognition of how the company has evolved from a provider of signalling equipment housings, to a turnkey design, manufacture, installation and testing and commissioning contractor of signalling systems to the UK rail industry
Two of its recent products
caught the attention of Infrarail visitors. The MaGBox range of equipment enclosures are manufactured using a heavy duty composite of Glass Reinforced Polyester (GRP) that has a solid core, giving the enclosure an advance in physical and environmental properties over conventional equipment housings. Compared to traditional metal housings, the MagBox range offers benefits in many areas, according to the company, such as physical, electrical, thermal, fire safety, theft and vandalism, and life-cycle costs. Also unveiled was the
British Superbike Championship rider Tommy Hill meets visitors to the Adaptaflex stand
MaGBlu SAFR, a new Signal Aspect Flashing Relay developed using BR930 relay type ‘plug- in’ technology. This is one of a number of new products being developed by MGB Signalling which uses modular internal components aimed at reducing development time, improving reliability and the cost of provision. The Network Rail-approved product can be utilised in New Work Projects where the standard MaGBlu unit featuring the BR930- type relay base would be applied, reaping the benefits of size and plug- in technology. Moreover, MaGBlu SAFR offers increased flexibility as it can also be used as a direct replacement for existing units.
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